If you had plans to download copies of the SNES Donkey Kong Country trilogy via Nintendo?s Virtual Console service, sadly, you are now out of luck if you live in North America. Nintendo has removed the three titles from their library effective this past Sunday. If you live in Europe however, you still have a chance to snag them before they go away on their respective?Virtual Console service, but you?ll want to grab them quickly, since the games will be removed from the European services this coming Sunday, November 25th. More details after the cut.
While it is unfortunate that the games have been removed from the services in North America, one must wonder why the US audiences were not given any warning of the removal of the games, while European players were given advanced notice. In that part of the world, a message shows up on the Wii Shop Channel, giving the notification, while American players were completely in the dark. Rare FandaBase had contacted Nintendo directly?to inquire about a possible reasoning behind the trilogies removal, and Nintendo had this to say in response:
?Thanks for letting us know how much you enjoy the Donkey Kong Country games?I know this isn?t what you were hoping to hear, but we do not have any information about why these classic games were removed?While I can?t guarantee that these games will get added back in the future, we take all feedback into consideration.?
It seems that Nintendo themselves are either out of the loop internally, or that they do not wish to make the reason or reasons publically available at this time. There has been a lot of assumption of the cause of the games removal?running rampant over the last few days. The story that is spreading like wildfire online is that there are conflicts in rights between Nintendo and Rare. While Rare is the developer of the classic trilogy, Rare was purchased by rival Microsoft just over a decade ago. However, since Nintendo owns the rights of the actual games and characters outright, it makes the entire situation confusing. (Of course, this hasn?t been confirmed as of yet.)
The games that have been removed from the lineup are Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy?s Kong Quest, and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong?s Quest. The original titles?were released for the Super NES between 1994 and 1996. If you live in Europe and want to grab them before they are gone, they are selling for 800 Wii Points each.
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